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Adlai Stevenson leaped into the fight (TIME, Sept. 8). At Detroit-surrounded Hamtramck, he said that Eisenhower's statement led to "speculation here and abroad that if he were elected, some reckless action might ensue in an attempt to liberate the peoples of Eastern Europe from Soviet tyranny." He added: "I tell you now that I will never fear to negotiate in good faith with the Soviet Union, for to close the door to the conference room is to open a door...
Four years ago, he and his tireless wife Nancy came out of political nowhere to tour the state in their battered De Soto convertible. Soapy called square dances at every crossroad, and he and Nancy out-polkaed the Polish-Americans in Hamtramck. In six months of hard campaigning they got Soapy elected as one of the rare Democratic governors in a traditionally Republican state. In 1950 they did it again, to make him the second Democratic governor in Michigan's history ever elected in a nonpresidential year. Last week, at an undaunted 41 years. Soapy plunged into the campaign...
...Hamtramck. Stevenson told a Polish-American audience that Eisenhower's American Legion speech had "aroused speculation here and abroad that if he were elected, some reckless action might ensue in an attempt to liberate the peoples of Eastern Europe from Soviet tyranny." Stevenson tore into this straw man, saying that the Soviet grip "upon your friends and relatives cannot be loosened by loose talk or idle threats [or] by starting a war which would lead to untold suffering." Toward the end of his speech. Stevenson said that he did not interpret Eisenhower's words in this warlike...
...Dodge plant in Hamtramck, Mich, ten assembly-line workers asked for coveralls to protect their clothing from oil and grease drippings. The company had none, so it issued the men smocks used regularly in the paint department. The boys began to jeer: "Next they will give you guys berets." Another worker catcalled: "Hello, Floozy!" Thus subjected to mortification, extreme mental cruelty, great mental anguish, the ten besmocked workmen walked off the job. They were followed by 146 other workers. Before the day was out, the company had to send 14,000 employees home...
Next day it looked as though Veteran Talbert was unduly pessimistic about the youngsters. Stepping onto the boards of Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory, he ran into 25-year-old Fred Kovaleski of Hamtramck, Mich., who promptly dumped Talbert out of the running...